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UMC Virtual Tour

A virtual tour of the United Minecraft Cities on the public Reddit PVE server at p.nerd.nu. UMC is a project aimed at helping new players find their place on the server and showing off server cities and independent builds. Everything in the images was built without cheats of any sort.

UMC Scenic Overlook

We begin the tour at the UMC scenic overlook, built by jsojl. The overlook is on East Road out of spawn, and just west of UMC. The Overlook was built while UMC was still in construction, but it gives a great view of the completed building.

UMC

UMC is the United Minecraft Cities, the server UN. The project hosts a variety of public amenities and embassies to show off cities and independent builds. The building has a center tower and four corner towers; the corner towers are solely dedicated to embassies. This version of UMC has 15 floors (ground through 14), roof parks, a map room in the basement, public farms to the north, and public crafting areas.
Each floor is 10 blocks high. The center tower is an 81 diameter cylinder, and each corner tower is a 41 diameter cylinder. Based on estimations, we had to use at least 26 doublechests of glass (27 stacks each, or 1728 glass blocks each) and more than 30 doublechests of smoothstone for just the corner towers. Altogether, that's at least 44,928 placed glass blocks and 51,840 stone for the corner towers alone. Most of the stone was from terraforming two mountains since UMC's ideal area near spawn was in an extreme hills biome. Both mountains were flattened in 3 days.
P.nerd.nu does not allow inventory cheats, hacks, flying, creative, or any other non-legit farming. Every piece used to construct UMC was farmed by a player through legit means.

Hello!

I am Zuziza, one of the UMC founders. I've been the main overseer for this version of UMC, but I was far from the only builder. We had a lot of help. I'll be showing you the main attractions of UMC.
I apologize in advance for any rendering issues; my laptop is pretty old, so walking around on Far bumped me down to about 2-3 fps.

Server Map

Each block on the map represents a 200x200 block area, and each sign is a city. Every city has its official name, coords, and UMC embassy listed. Nether portals are marked by obsidian and End Portals are marked by endstone. Redstone marks primary rail systems.
Each block is also representative of the biome that fills up most of the 200x200 block space. Elevated blocks are extreme hills, grass is plains, tall grass is forest, ferns are jungles, snow is tiaga, lapis is ocean, sand is desert, and brown wool is swamp.

Terraformed Mountain

Directly east of UMC was another mountain which was left looking rather vertical after we had cleared the area we needed. We worked with atarianimo, another player who had claimed that mountain, to make it look more natural and to add a cave so that East Road could continue through the build. The skull waterfall was a joint idea, to make the entrance more fun.

Building Directory

Near the center of UMC, there are signs labelling various directories. The Building Directory lists all of the embassies assigned to various floors in the UMC. Each embassy gets one floor in a corner tower to design as they please in order to represent their city or build. Ambassadors are chosen by cities to design and construct the embassy.

UMC FAQ

Donors & Builders

I've made it a point to keep careful track of anyone who has helped UMC, whether it was through terraforming, building, or donating supplies. There is no way UMC would have been completed within the time that it was without these players.

Elevators to the South

Pony's Pen

During my time on P, a player promised me a pony (!) and eventually delivered a pony constructed of wool. Just after building a pen to the south of UMC, Pony was then stolen and has been missing since. The issue has caused deep divides on P due to debates on Pony's care and the political implications of having him on UMC grounds.
(For anyone who's taking this too seriously, there were protests made by melon men of the Pony Liberation Organization, who are nothing more than golems constructed out of melons, pumpkins, and levers. We are a silly people.)

UMC Farms

We added as many renewable resources to the farm as possible. Just outside the UMC are melons and pumpkins, since melon is the favorite food of the server and jack-o-lanterns are a common source of lighting.

PVE Lotto Branch

The PVE Lotto is organized by smiler100. Every week or two, players join by claiming a chest in a Lotto branch. Our server uses a protective plugin that allows players to lock chests and filter access, so smiler100 then limits access to an assigned chest to himself and the player wishing to enter.

PVE Lotto

Once the player has a chest, they can enter 1-5 iron ingots as their fee. 1 iron ingot is 1 entry, with each entry as a chance to win the pot. Players are also permitted to donate any items they wish to the pot, though they have no way of increasing their chances other than buying the maximum of 5 entries.
In one notable lottery, a player won a God Pick (EffV, Un3, F3 diamond pick), a Demi-God Pick (EffV, Un3, ST1), 2 stacks of glowstone, some mycelium, lapis blocks, and various other goodies.
PVE Lotto has been tremendously popular and successful on P because of the donations people have made to the pot. It will continue in future revisions.

A nice view

Sunrise on the roof

Water Drop of Doom

This water drop has cause many deaths... most of which were suffocation due to players glitching into the glass sides of the building. We used this water drop while constructing most of the top half of the tower and it was too exhilarating to remove.